West Coast Chill

Abstract

The fall of 2010 marked the 20th year that Mitchell Joseph, a fourth generation beverage executive, serial entrepreneur, and the founder of the Joseph Company (the "Company"), had been working on developing the technology for a self-chilling can. Mitchell was at an impasse and had some important decisions to make. The latest versions of the self-chilling can technology (Phase 2 and 3) were showing encouraging progress, cooling liquid in aluminum cans by approximately 30°F in less than three minutes. He was sure that this product performance would make the can attractive to beverage companies around the world.